circumgestation

English

Etymology

From Latin circumgestare (“to carry around”), from circum + gestare (“to carry”).

Noun

circumgestation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act or process of carrying about.
   • 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery

     circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “circumgestation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)